One of the reasons the rich left the waterfront back in the 19th century was this very problem - the river rats overran their gardens and invaded their homes.

This compounded by the new ideas of growing wild unruly plants in public parks - might look good in an upscale mall, totally inappropriate for public spaces in NYC like Dutch Kills Green, for example.

The parks people know this - trash builds in plant pits, under cutsy bridges, and their bio-swale bullshit. Rat nests hidden in plain sight. Even if they go back to cutsy well manicured areas (and suck in and take advantage of a batch of gullible locals to do the cleaning the developers are too cheap to take responsibility) they will still have rats.

But that is the least of their problems. Sooner or later the rivers will flood again with their sewage and toxic brew of chemicals flooding all those cutesy restaurants and nursery schools.

Within a few years the cancers from living above a brownfield will start to become evident. And we hope that those developers will get their asses sued off.

They have a cafe right there, producing trash that sits out for several hours before being picked up. They are literally feeding them, and wondering why more are coming?

This isn't good for Queens on a whole. As the rats cross the river, they will spread through the borough - though some neighborhoods have decent feral cat and raccoon populations that might keep them in check.

Try 158th Street and 43rd Avenue in Flushing. Three homes infested, rat poison signs out front, blocking the "for sale" signs up and down the street.

There have always been rats in Kissena Park, and few home infestations here and there. But it used to get handled and controlled. Now they march up and down the local streets as we have lost control of our neighborhoods to REBNY. Civics with no power. Nothing but developers and mega dormitories, open pits in the ground waiting for Chinese government financing to turn into the next barracks.

The city should outlaw plastic garbage bags.All over the city mountains of garbage is an easy meal for rats,stray dogs and cats, raccoons and pigeons.All that plastic is going to sit in landfills forever unless they are bio degradable type.

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